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Torture of Saint Apollonia (1513, Heilsbronn Cathedral, Bavaria). Ecclesiastical historians have claimed that in the last years of Emperor Philip the Arab (reigned 244–249), during otherwise undocumented festivities to commemorate the millennium of the founding of Rome (traditionally in 753 BC, putting the date about 248), the fury of the Alexandrian mob rose to a great height, and when one ...
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Saint Apollonius the Apologist or Saint Apollonius of Rome (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος; died 21 April 185) was a 2nd-century Christian martyr and apologist who was martyred in 185 under the Emperor Commodus (161–192).
Saint Ansbert of Rouen, third abbot of Fontenelle Abbey and then Bishop of Rouen (c. 700) [22] [26] [note 13] Saint Cuaran ( Curvinus, Cronan ), a bishop in Ireland, called 'the Wise' - on account of his knowledge of the canons - who hid his identity to become a monk at Iona , where he was recognised by St Columba (c. 700) [ 22 ] [ 27 ]
Depicts Saint Apollonia (2nd century) and Saint Syncletica of Alexandria. Wheeler states that like Syncletica's images of the human body, her imagery of women's work, which help her demonstrate her ideas about spiritual growth, "is an essential feature of her understanding of embodied spirituality" in her vita. [38]
Saint Apollonia (Greek: 'Αγία Απολλωνία, Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲁⲡⲟⲗⲗⲟⲛⲓⲁ, pronounced [tiˈaɡiə ʔa.pɔlˈlo.ni.jə]) was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius.
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A 3rd century BCE coin from Apollonia depicting the eternal fire of the nymphaion. The area had already been occupied by Illyrians before the founding of nearby Apollonia by a joint colony of Corinth and Kerkyra in the 7th–6th century BCE, and the site was likely already a place of worship because of its peculiar physical properties. [2]